Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drop-out-or-die ultimatums are an aggressive attempt to rectify a long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...
...rebel offensive is timed to remind voters that the F.M.L.N. remains a force to be reckoned with. The election of moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte in 1984 seemed to promise an end to the grueling war. But failed talks with the rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...
...behind in the polls is the Democratic Convergence, a left-wing coalition. Its candidate, Guillermo Ungo, a leader of the rebel movement's political arm, has called openly for a dialogue with the F.M.L.N. While the guerrillas officially shun the elections as a farce, some strategists believe Ungo's participation may be useful. Explains Hector Silva, a spokesman for one of the parties in the Convergence: "Ungo knows he can't win. But with him running, how to end the war becomes part of the campaign debate...
...million Kampucheans in a genocidal resettlement program. Up to another million fled, swarming into refugee camps across the border in Thailand. In 1979 invading Vietnamese troops overthrew the murderous Pol Pot. Since then, the Hanoi-backed government in Phnom Penh has been at war with a coalition of three rebel factions that includes as many as 35,000 fighters of the ousted Khmer Rouge...
More than adventure, Afghanistan offered sheer terror -- "the most extreme of all situations I've ever known," says Maria Muller, a West German nurse and veteran of five missions to Viet Nam. Five medical facilities in rebel territory were destroyed by Soviet bombs, and medical care was administered under the most primitive conditions. Amputations, says Muller, were "unimaginable. We had only a small amount of a narcotic, Trapanal. The saw came from the nearest work shed, and the amputation knife was a dagger from one of the rebels...